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While summer in most country does not technically begin until mid-June,Indonesia has only two seasons, summer and rainy season. A few days ago the sun appeared, so I think summer has arrived. So I compile some songs to enjoy your summer. Brace yourselves.

Ps: The mix-tape that I post up is NOT for commercial use and posted with respect, not with the intention for profit or to violate copyright.If you are the creator (or copyright owner) of the song on this post, and want to remove it, please contact me.

Kendal Johansson's cover of "Blue Moon" is easily one of my favorite cover songs of all time, although I'm not that big of a fan of the original version // Miike Snow is a band that I don't like, at all. Same goes for La Roux, but, this cover is utterly brilliant, and kudos to Miike Snow. Now start making better music.

■■■ This is a really, really good album which I'll get back to listening to times and times again.■■ Could've been better, could've been worse. Has less than six good songs, more than two.■ Meh. Has one or two good songs, and hasn't made any impression on me whatsoever.

A while ago, I made a series of 7 compilations for a music website entitled "Rotten Candy: The Best of Rare Power Pop, Mod and Pop Punk." They're filled with killer songs from the late 70s and early 80s. I can't believe that none of these songs wound up being hits. People seemed to really dig them, so check them out:

Traditionalist fuddy-duddies like to criticize sampling as being artless and cheap, but there's a not-so-surprising secret that they'd rather you not notice: pop music in an inherently cannibalistic medium. People are going to reuse what works, as long as they can get away with it.

This thought brings us to "Be My Baby", the 1963 single written and produced by Phil "Wall of Sound" Spector. Pure, unadulterated pop gold if there ever was such a thing, the song was a huge hit and the pinnacle of Spector's abilities. Brian Wilson was obsessed with it. He wrote "Don't Worry Baby" - one of his most memorable and accomplished songs - as a "male answer" to the song. In the wake of Smile's failure and his descent into depression and schizophrenia, he listened to the song on the jukebox in his home hundreds of times a day, at one point having a copy of it cut down to a few particular seconds of it which he would listen to looped over and over again in a dark room for hours on end.

The most famous segment of this famous song is without a doubt its intro, a wonderful little drum pattern that sets the tone perfectly: "bum-babum-pa,bum-babum-pa". Even if you've never heard the original before, it's more than likely that you've heard that before. For some inexplicable reason, that drum pattern has resonated throughout pop music history, from just a year after the original song's release to just a few months ago.

http://www.media fire.com/download.php?4mfy2ryo3mu-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------This is a select list, there are many, many more examples. The point of all this? Pop music is constantly recycling itself, and a good bit of instrumentation can be adapted to almost any situation.